Using quick brushes

One of the new tools in Aperture 3 that I'm very excited about are the…Quick Brushes, right here.…And you can also access them, if you go to any View mode down here.…Now, what do these things do?…These allow us to do localized adjustments.…Well, before when we got to the stage of a photograph, we would often have to go…to Photoshop to do this work.…This allows us to stay in Aperture longer and sometimes forever without ever…having to leave this application.…

There are a lot of Quick Brushes, as you can see, right here.…I'm going to show you a few of them.…We're going to work on this image here.…And I'll try to show you the various controls that come with the brushes that we…are working on, and those controls also apply to the other brushes.…So really, then it just becomes a matter of which adjustment do you want to make?…I want to work on this shot a little bit.…There are a couple of things about it I'd like to change.…So, I am going to go to Full Screen mode to give us a better view of it.…

I hit the F key, by the way, to go to Full Screen mode.…

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10/3/2012

This course covers the entire photographic workflow in Apple Aperture, from import to enhancement to output. Author Derrick Story covers organizing image collections with star ratings, labels, and Smart Albums, and using the image editing tools to adjust exposure, retouch flaws, and correct color balance issues. And one of the most noteworthy features in Aperture is explored in detail: its ability to store video clips alongside the stills from digital cameras, then combine them to create stunning multimedia slideshows.

This course was updated on 10/03/12. Updated movies cover the features added through version 3.3, including Retina display support, iCloud photo sharing, streamlined integration with iPhoto, and much more.